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Nonna Elda’s Spicy Chili Giardiniera
Only three ingredients to preserving your own super spicy homemade chili giardiniera! Nonna Elda’s spicy chili giardiniera is a staple in our family’s kitchen. It came from her own grandmother’s chili giardiniera recipe in Italy but has been updated since coming to Canada in the 1960’s with smaller, hotter, peppers that she started growing some…
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Nonna Elda’s Christmas Recipe for Chocolate Torrone
Chocolate Torrone is a family favourite in Italian households all over the diaspora. It’s easy to make it requires no baking and the recipe is enough for 8 logs that keep well for a month when kept somewhere cool and wrapped. This is the perfect gift to make for when visiting friends and family over…
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How to make Ciambelle Ciociare
Today we are making Ciambelle Ciociare, a kind of peasant bread or bread donuts that is traditional in the Ciociare region of Italy. We are making it for one of Nonna’s granddaughter’s weddings. This will accompany a full Italian cookie sweets table but these ciambelle are not sweet, they are anise flavoured and they are…
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Nonna Elda Cooks: How to make Pizza Fritta
It’s easier than you think to make this delicious Italian fair food! All you need is the same ingredients that you would use for pizza dough and deep fry! The key here is not rushing the rising process you want them to be nice and airy and fluffy. When you make your little balls, let…
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Nonna Elda’s Step-by-Step Guide for how to cure your own Capicola/ Capocollo
Nonna’s step-by-step instructions for how to cure your own capicola / capocollo. Love deli meats and charcuterie? You can enjoy the best thinly sliced capicola at home with your own Beswood electric deli slicer. And if you really want to live the Nonna lifestyle, you can cure your own with our free recipe download!
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Nonna Elda’s Struffoli Recipe
Happy Christmas to all of Nonna Elda’s internet bambini! We have been so blessed this year, Nonna had cataract surgery and she is recovering. The garden had plenty of chilis. Now Nonna is preparing the fish for this year’s feast for Christmas eve You can get a copy of Nonna’s Christmas Eve recipes in her…
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Pasta Alla Puttanesca: Nonna Elda’s Secret Recipe
Nonna Elda remembers her mother making this recipe in Italy back in the 1940’s during and after WWII The children in the family would go out into the olive orchards and pick the olives that had fallen to the ground and bring them home to make Pasta Alla Puttanesca. In better times this recipe is…
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Nonna Elda’s Stuffed Shell Pasta
Nonna Elda’s Stuffed Shell pasta has a mix of ground beef and ground pork. She often makes this dish for Easter dinner, but it’s a great one to make ahead and freeze and can feed a big crowd. So she will often make this for parties, or to keep on hand in case the big…
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Frittata Napoletana di Pasta, aka Frittata Pasta
Ready in about 10 minutes this dish will help you clean out your fridge and make a fast meal that can be enjoyed hot, or cold. Learn something today? You can say thanks by ordering one of Nonna Elda’s cookbooks! We make $2 from each cook book sales and it goes toward helping us cover…
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Nonna Elda Cooks Cabbage Rolls
There are some foods that just taste like a warm cosy hug and Nonna Elda’s Italian Cabbage Rolls are one of them. These delicious savoury rolls take a little bit of work, but they’re worth the effort. They’re also a fun recipe to make together with your family, friends, and partner. These are large batch…
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